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the Indian, but it was to the heavy moss on their southern sides and the ragged branches on the northwestern sides that he looked—not to the white blaze which the clumsy European made and depended upon. It will be remembered that, after the siege at Bryant's Station, Kentucky, the unsuccessful Indian horde attempted the scheme of luring the white man out by feigning a retreat. Accordingly, they deserted their camp suddenly in the night, leaving meat unroasted upon the spits and garments scattered about, as though their flight were a precipitous rout. Among other means by which they let their pursuers know which way they fled, a historian affirms that they blazed their course upon the trees so that there would be no doubt of their pursuers falling into their craftily laid ambush. The whites followed the blazes—though this, and other un-Indian signs, made such men as Boone suspicious—and the bloody and fatal massacre at Blue Licks was the result. This is one of the few recorded cases of Indians blazing trees, and nothing could be better evidence that such was not a